"Your inner evil," he said, and before you could say domestic diva he was imitating one: "Find your inner villain.
Nice people like us had effectively sentenced Justine Sacco to a year's punishment for the crime of some poor phraseology in a tweet – as if some clunky wording had been a clue to her secret inner evil.
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931) Rouben Mamoulian's black-and-white film is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel about Dr. Henry Jekyll, an English physician who turns into a violent, wild-haired second self named Edward Hyde after ingesting a potion that unleashes his inner evil.
The "external form of the inner character of a human being" (ibid., p. 322) is the ideal of beauty, when the beauty of that external form expresses the goodness of the internal character; correspondingly, the external expression of inner evil is the most hateful form of appearance.
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What we have done to ourselves is create this surveillance society, like the Stasi, where we're constantly looking for somebody's terrible tweet as a clue to their inner evil.
In every case, as in the Greek plays, the destructive forces seem to combine inner inadequacies or evils, such as Lear's temper or Macbeth's ambition, with external pressures, such as Lear's "tiger daughters," the witches in Macbeth, or Lady Macbeth's importunity.
In form, "Blow" resembles Scorsese's "GoodFellas," but this is a "GoodFellas" without spirit, honesty, or inner acquaintance with evil — without the fire of talent.
They are about the often subtle, often banal inner workings of evil, and about the many shapes of heroism -- those impossible struggles of the individual challenged by forces that threaten his soul more than his body.
One would be them at their finest and the other would be the girls dressed as their "inner saboteur;" the evil voice in their head that tells them they're not good enough.
